The Latest News about single payer health care

Medicare for all, healthcare paid for through taxation, is in trouble in Northern Europe. More specifically, it’s failing in countries that Democrats continually cite as success stories for single-payer systems. Finland’s government resigned Friday after failing to implement reforms required to save its taxpayer-funded boondoggle from inefficiency and cost overruns. “We need reforms, there is no other way for Finland ...

Republican lawmakers painted Medicare-for-all as a socialist nightmare after Democratic Reps. Pramila Jayapal of Washington and Debbie Dingell of Michigan unveiled their bill to place virtually all health care payment in the government’s hands Wednesday. “If I have a beef with the Medicare-for-all, they’re being totally dishonest with the American people,” Republican Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy told reporters at a ...

Brady Kenyon August 2, 2018Comments Off on Bernie Sanders ‘Medicare for All’ Plan Would Cost a Whopping $32 Trillion

The leading current Senate bill to establish single-payer health insurance in the United States sponsored by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) would cost nearly $32.6 trillion according to a new report from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. To put this in perspective, “Medicare for all” would nearly double the size of the already bloated federal government says Investors Business Daily. The analysis ...